Poles dissatisfied with government response to Russian missile incident in Lublin region
Almost 38% of Poles assess the state's actions negatively following the fall of a Russian missile on Polish territory.
Source: SW Research survey for Onet, as reported by European Pravda
Details: The survey posed the following question: "How do you assess the speed of the Polish state's response to the incursion of a Russian missile onto our territory on 30 July 2026?"
Negative responses account for a significant share – 21.2% believe the authorities handled the situation very poorly, and 16.6% believe they handled it poorly, totalling 37.8% of dissatisfied respondents.
Only 9% of respondents believe the state's response to the missile incident was very good. 18.5% consider it to have been good, amounting to a combined 27.5% of respondents satisfied with the authorities' actions.
A total of 22.8% indicated they were "moderately" satisfied with the response, while 11.9% were unable to give a definitive answer.
Background:
- Polish investigators have confirmed that a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile, manufactured in the second quarter of 2026 at a factory in Moscow Oblast, crashed in the Lublin Voivodeship on 30 July.
- Polish Deputy Defence Minister Cezary Tomczyk stated that a Ukrainian pilot tracked the Russian Kh-101 missile until the very last moment, but was unable to shoot it down and was forced to turn back 20 seconds from the border.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said there are no grounds to believe Poland was the target.
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